Hatje Cantz & Urban Spree invite you to the photobook première, exhibit & signing of Romeo Alaeff's, “In der Fremde: Pictures from Home," a cinematic survey of Berlin & the search for "home"—with essays by Yuval Noah Harari, Eva Hoffman, Joseph Kertes, Rory MacLean, Christian Rattemeyer & Charles Simic.

The artist will present & sign books at Urban Spree in Berlin, along with a display of prints; he will also engage with the audience in partnership with the publisher, Hatje Cantz, and the book's editor, Nadine Barth.
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Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021
17:00 - 20:00
Indoor/Outdoor Event — Free Entry
(Beer Garden will remain open for socializing afterwards.)

Urban Spree
Reveler Str. 99
10245 - Berlin
https://www.urbanspree.com/

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— Urban Spree Event Page: https://www.urbanspree.com/program/events/photobook-launch-in-der-fremde-pictures-from-home.html
— Facebook Invite: https://fb.me/e/16YqCCPnR

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Books will be sold at a discount at the event: 35€ (instead of 44€)
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If you can't make it, you can still order signed books at Degrasse Projects with free shipping to the USA & Germany 'till the end of Sept; or get an unsigned book at your favorite outlet, or directly from the distributors: Hatje Cantz, D.A.P. or Thames & Hudson Ltd. (links and coupon code below)
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Be sure to catch this work in the September print issue of Harper's Magazine! & Read the features in LitHub, The Christian Science Monitor, or the interview on RBB Abendshau. (links below)
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Romeo Alaeff is a Berlin-based artist from Brooklyn, NY. After moving to Berlin nine years ago, he began a long-term photographic series about migration, belonging, and the universal search for home.

Through haunting, cinematic images of Berlin, he charts a new city topography in the context of a complex family history spanning from Yemen to the former USSR, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Israel/Palestine, and the United States.

"In der Fremde: Pictures from Home" is composed of eerie night-scapes and Kiezszene in familiar Berlin neighborhoods, but, as the oxymoronic title suggests, strangeness and unfamiliarity lurk in the shadows.

The nocturnal photographs are framed by inspiring essays on the topics of home, migration and identity by Romeo Alaeff, Yuval Noah Harari, Eva Hoffman, Joseph Kertes, Rory MacLean, Christian Rattemeyer, and Charles Simic.
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REVIEWS:

“These pictures show the real Berlin night.”
— Berliner Zeitung Online

"Alaeff’s fascination with the mundane, the accessible and the authentic, presents itself casually to the observer, if one is open to the magic of the unexpected."
— Berliner Zeitung Front Page Story

“His photos show a city that many Berliners probably don’t know yet.”
— RBB Abendschau/Berlin TV Evening News

"The mostly empty spaces seem like stages where a performance has already taken place."
— Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor

"En Route to the Witching Hour - The photographer Romeo Alaeff shows another side of Berlin."
— Charlott Tornow, Mit Vergnügen

"[A]t night, the artist Romeo Alaeff walked the streets of Berlin alone with his camera. He took photos of the skyline, of young people fighting on the train, and empty pools and buildings. He captured this loneliness and transience in [his book which]…is inspired by that sense of being uprooted, of living somewhere new and trying to orient oneself in a new land.”
— Sophie Kemp, Garage/Vice Magazine